Combination daventport and bed



R. E. DIXON.

COMBINATION DAVENPORT AND BED.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I7. 1919..

1354540, Patented (m. 5,1920.

aizorney I UNITED STATES ROBERT E. DIXON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINATION DILVENPGRT AND BED.

Application filed .Tune 17, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. DIXON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination Davenports and Beds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combination davenports and beds and has for its primary object the provision of a means whereby the several cooperating elements thereof may be moved to such positions as will provide respectively a davenport andbed.

A further object of the invention is to provide in a device of the above mentioned character a means whereby the several cooperative movable elements thereof may be retained normally in their respective positions.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, forming a part of this specification and wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is an end elevation of the device embodying my invention, a certain portion thereof being broken away,

Fi 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1, and,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the several elements thereof extended to provide a bed certain elements being shown in section.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred form of my invention, the numeral 5 indicates vertically disposed frame members which are secured together at their upper ends bymeans of a cross bar 6, the cross bar 6 being braced with respect to the upright members members 13 there is slidably disposed a pair Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Serial No. 304,795.

of rods 14 which are connected at their outer ends to a frame 15 having downwardly depending supports 16.

To the vertical members 5 there is suitably connected a transversely disposed angle-bar 17 provided with a pair of vertically disposed rods 18 adapted to slidably receive thereon a pair of hinges 19 which are in turn connected to a suitable receptacle or container 20. The container 20 is hingedly connected to a second container 21, the second container 21 being hingedly coI1- nected to a third container 22 which is suitably secured to the frame 15 as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Vithin each of the containers 20 and 21 and 22 there is disposed a plurality of springs 23 adapted to receive thereupon a mattress 24:.

Upon the supports 8 there is slidably mounted a drawer which is indicated as a whole by the numeral 25, the drawer being .eral containers together with the cooperating elements 13 and'lel may be moved to the position shown in Fig. 3 as a result of which movement the hinges 19, due to the arrangement of the receptacle 20 with the tubular members 12, are raised or elevated on their respective vertical rods 18 to the position shown in Fig. 3. When the device is used as a bed the members 20 carrying the mattress sections rest upon the extended telescopic members and thereby rigidly support the members 20 in a horizontal plane.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

In a combined bed and davenport, a stationary head section and anextensible foot section, a plurality of mattress sections hingcdly connected together and one of Which being rigidly connected With the extensible foot section While the others being capable of being folded to a vertical position, a

horizontal bar mountedon the head section at a point in alinement With the mattress sections When in extended position, hinge elements carried by the inner end of the innermost mattress section, and vertically disposed pins carried by the horizontal bar with Which the hinged elements are slidably engaged, the hinged elements resting on the horizontal bar when the foldable sections are arranged in Vertical position.

ROBERT E. DIXON. 

